# When someone realizes you HATE a performer they LOVE... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-realizes-you-hate-a-performer-they-love/482447 "2009-01-22T13:23:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-realizes-you-hate-a-performer-they-love/482447/2 "2009-01-22T14:25:37Z")
I often express my strong dislike for the acting styles of William H. Macy (all the range of Shatner without the self-aware humor) and how he is almost always the worst part of any movie he is in. People bring up Fargo almost immediately and I protest, but Fargo was boring. They then light the torches and sharpen the pitchforks. Sometimes I seem to be the only person who thought Heath Ledger sucked and sucked as the Joker. He overacted worse than Jack and without the personality to make it interesting. He was a terrible actor in all of his prior work that I have seen. Terrible in _The Brothers Grimm_, painfully bad in _A Knight’s Tale_, did a bad job of channeling Val Kilmer in _10 Things I Hate About You_. I don’t even remember him in _Monster’s Ball_. I realize he played the son, but his part could have been done by anyone. Meryl Streep: I hate her method of acting. It seems like a throwback to stage actors of the 20s and 30s and I hate it. I am in a minority again and many women absolutely love her and her acting. They often think I am a jerk for daring to dislike Streep. David Caruso, worst successful actor ever! Of course few disagree on this one. 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-someone-realizes-you-hate-a-performer-they-love/482447)._